The New Pictures, Oct. 2, 1950

Mister 880 (20th Century-Fox) adapts the authentic storyalmost too
good to be trueof the most elusive man the U.S. Secret Service ever
tried to catch: a lovable old counterfeiter who struck off amateurish
one-dollar bills. St. Clair McKelway told the story in three New Yorker
articles last year. Scripter Robert (It Happened One Night) Riskin
retells it with just enough respect for the flavorsome facts and just
the right knack of working them into warm, humorous fiction.

As in real life, the counterfeiter (Edmund Gwenn) confounds and
frustrates the Treasury Department for ten years....